Evert Vedung

Public Policy and Program Evaluation (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a recent addition to the great chain of attempts to use the brainpower of scholars and scientists to further the interests of the state. Evaluation scholars are asked to provide retrospective assessments of the implementation, output, and outcome of government measures in order to effect deeper understanding and well-grounded decisions on the part of those in charge of government operations. Evaluation is the process of distinguishing the worthwhile from the worthless, the precious from the useless; evaluation implies looking backward in order to be able to steer forward better.

Written from a political science perspective, Public Policy and Program Evaluation provides an overview of the possibilities and limits of public sector evaluation. Evert Vedung examines evaluation as a mechanism for monitoring, systematizing, and grading government activities and their results so that public officials, in their future-oriented work, will be able to act as responsibly, creatively, and efficiently as possible. Topics discussed include: "Evaluation, Rationality, and Theories of Public Management"; "Models of Evaluation"; "Internal or External Evaluation"; "Impact Assessment as Tryout and Social Experimentation"; "Process Evaluation and Implementation Theory"; "The Eight-Problems Approach to Evaluation"; and "Uses and Users of Evaluation."

All evaluation rests upon the idea that perceptions, opinions, intentions, judgments-in short, everything concerned with the world of human consciousness-play such interesting roles in political and administrative action that their functions are worth investigating. Through experience, humans may learn from past actions. The interventions of the modern state are so extensive, their execu

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351495615
• Artikelnr.: 48867609

Autorenporträt

Evert Vedung

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the First Swedish Edition
1. Evaluation: A Semantic Magnet
2. Evaluation Between Intervention and Feedback
3. Evaluation
Rationality
and Theories of Public Management
4. Models of Evaluation
5. The Eight Problems Approach to Evaluation
6. Evaluation Purposes
7. Internal or External Evaluation
8. Characterizing the Public Intervention
9. Monitoring
10. Pre-Evaluation
11. Impact Assessment as Tryout and Social Experimentation
12. Generic
Reflexive
Statistical
and Shadow Controls
13. Process Evaluation and Implementation Theory
14. Merit Criteria and Performance Standards
15. Uses and Utility of Evaluation
Glossary of Key Concepts in Evaluation
References
Index